KDE is known to be remarkably configurable. Unfortunately up till now there was no GUI application exposing that. The problem got more evident with the coming of the wonderful KConfig XT framework. Developers and administrators wanted to have nice graphical tools to edit and create configurations. KDE developers listened. We introduce three applications which let administrators and developers take full control over their desktops.

KConfigEditor - First preview release of a desktop configurator. Note that this is a preview release and while the version released along KDE 3.3 will support editting of GNOME configuration and exporting changes as KJSEmbed scripts - this version doesn't.

KCfgCreator - Application which should be used by developers to create configurations for their applications. It can be used to migrate older applications to KConfig XT. It allows developers to use KConfig XT without knowing anything about it.

Kiosk is still a work-in-progress really. Functionally it is getting there, and then perhaps its look and feel can be talked about. Maybe it might become a KPart and be integrated into Control Centre in some way? Don't know.

I see: a few apps on my KDE desktop that come with their own look'n'feel.

I hope: this will not end up in the look'n'feel hell that windows is in right now, cauz all styles tend to mix there. To name a few: 98, XP (luna), XP-mediaplayer, XP-office (i.e. different toolbars), XP-software/update-dialogs and OSX (QuickTime, iTunes). And several apps ship there own style (Norton, RealPlayer, AdAware). This is bad looking'n'feeling in my eyes.

I think: KDE will be smart enough to avoid this problem. IN the future this will become a big advantage that KDE ill have over other desktop experiences.

The placement of these packages seems way wrong. Why are they in KDE Extra Gear?

KConfigEditor and Kiosk Admin Tool surely belong in kdeadmin. They would be extremely usefull to any administrator, and I fear too many people will miss them in kdeextragear ( many people do not install the KEG packages ).

KCfgCreater surely belongs in kdesdk. Its not usefull to anyone who is not a developer.